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noun

Import n.

Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; generally in the plural, opposed to exports. "I take the imports from, and not the exports to, these conquests, as the measure of these advantages which we derived from them."

That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.

Importance; weight; consequence. "Most serious design, and the great import."

verb

Import v. t. (past & past part. imported; pres. part. importing)

To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brazil, etc.

To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify. "Every petition... doth... always import a multitude of speakers together."

To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern. "I have a motion much imports your good." "If I endure it, what imports it you?"

Synonyms: To denote; mean; signify; imply; indicate; betoken; interest; concern.

Import v. i. To signify; to purport; to be of moment. "For that... importeth to the work."

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"Import" Quotes from Famous Books

... day of the war, and it helps us to understand a technical article on the operations of the military treasury (Der Zahlmeister im Felde) in the Berliner Tageblatt of the 26th of November, 1914, in which an economic phenomenon of rather unusual import is recited as a simple incident: "Experience has demonstrated that very much more money is forwarded by postal orders from the theatre of operations to the interior of the country than ...

— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... undertook to translate the most interesting passages for my edification (still acting as the mouthpiece of his deceased friend), with the exception of a few "love-passages," as Queen Elizabeth would have called them, the import of which was ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 19. No. 538 - 17 Mar 1832 • Various

... This lady bears dispatches of high import, Touching this business:—should they arrive ...

— Andre • William Dunlap

... hide you from her to the last! As I've hidden you from myself all these years!" She stood up with a sudden tragic import in her movement. "You believe me capable of that, don't you? If I had only guessed—but I have never known a girl like her; she had the truth out of me with ...

— The Descent of Man and Other Stories • Edith Wharton

... smiling. "And I am the knight who has won thy fair sister's heart. We plighted our troth after the tourney of Cologne. State affairs of the gravest import have kept me from her side, where I would fain have been these six months past. Take this token"—drawing from his breast the glove Guta had given him—"and tell her that a poor knight in Richard's train sends ...

— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence

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